Chapter 4 Where the Maple Leaves Fall, the Flowers Bloom on the Other Shore (Part I)
"Laugh, when you read this letter......"
Before Tan Xiao finished reading a line, the quaint letter paper was golden and bright, and a ball of light came straight to Tan Xiao's head, and in an instant, the letter paper in Tan Xiao's hand turned into dust and disappeared invisibly.
"Damn, uncle, you cheat me! I'm ......"
Reality didn't give the irritable Tan Xiao time to complain, and Tan Xiao, who had just woken up, fainted pitifully.
However, life is not just about stopping the water, there are many unexpected things that can happen.
It is precisely because of this coma that Tan Xiao's life, which may have been rich and ordinary, has made waves.
At the same time that Tan Xiao fell into a coma again, in the depths of the unknown soul, fragments of fragments emerged, and then kept combining and splicing.
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In the dimly lit cavern, water from deep within the crevices of the stone dripped along the outline of the stalactites. Not far away, there was a pool that emitted a demonic blood light, and beside the pool, a disheveled man was lying there, looking to be in his forties, but his whole body was dressed like he was in his late twenties.
His black sweatpants were already full of holes, and the sweatshirt that should have been pure white had already turned bloody, and he couldn't tell whether it was a man's blood or the water in the pool.
The dying man, but he just looked at the purple evil flower that had not opened in his hand stupidly, and life and death seemed to be out of his consideration.
"Banxia, did you see it? I found Manju Sahua, but it wasn't the legendary red.
This is the last place where it is possible to exist in Manju Sawa, there is a siren sounding outside the mountain all the time, they have found me, there is no time, I can't care so much.
It's going to open soon, you'll be back, right?
If there is a next life, I hope you will not meet me again in the next life. ”
The man's hand holding the flower hung down weakly, and the bright blood red on his wrist was in stark contrast to the evil flower, what the man didn't know was that it was the moment his hand fell.
A purple flower bloomed.
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Since the death of his grandfather who adopted him, Qin Feng has always been alone.
A man struggles to survive in this impetuous society.
Because Qin Feng knows that in this society, everyone is struggling to live, no one will always sympathize with you, if you want to live a better life, you must pay something, such as physical strength, mental power, or physical body.
And Qin Feng was accompanied only by the swollen dishwashing sink in the hotel where you could soak your hands, and the cold floor, the perennial smell of the garbage station, and the nasty mosquitoes and flies in summer, the white eyes of diners and passers-by, and the unwelcome of the classmates in the school who could feel a hint of warmth, and the book full of ancient characters left by the grandfather who was said to be the grandfather of the tomb robber.
Relying on the small things left by my grandfather, as well as odd jobs and subsidies for poor students from the school.
Qin Feng is like a snail in the dark, struggling to survive in a corner of this society.
Until he was admitted to the first university in Bac Giang province with a full scholarship.
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Qin Feng, who was promoted to the university, even though he got a full scholarship, still lived a boring day after day of classes, part-time jobs, and revisions.
He wants to make a better future through his own efforts, and change his grandfather, who has been dead for many years, to a larger cemetery.
Normally, according to this trajectory, after Qin Feng only graduates from the college career of part-time work and study, he will have a decent job, and then, like many people, marry a wife, have children, and then become a member of this bustling urban white-collar family.
However, this everything, in the winter of the sophomore year, took a different route.
She was like a warm sun in winter, suddenly appearing in the cold winter of Qin Feng's life, illuminating Qin Feng's dark life and melting the coldness hidden in his heart.
Qin Feng still remembers the afternoon she appeared, even twenty years ago, Qin Feng's memory was still so clear, and all the pictures flashed in Qin Feng's mind like a slideshow.
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Qin Feng, who had just come out of the library, was hit by a white shadow that suddenly came out of nowhere, and the books in his arms were scattered all over the ground.
"Oops, I'm sorry, classmate, I picked it up for you!"
A pleasant female voice sounded in his ears, waking Qin Feng up from his sluggish state.
The cool breeze gently blew the ends of the girl's hair, and the afternoon sunshine with a little golden shone on her somewhat apologetic face.
In Qin Feng's memory, her big bright eyes were full of sincerity, and sincerity was full of guilt.
She didn't have a trace of disdain in her eyes because of Qin Feng's dress.
"Hey, are you okay, I'm really sorry! I'm running a little fast. ”
Simple words, clean girl, like a spring breeze.
Qin Feng's frozen heart was flooded with a trace of waves.
"Well, it's fine. After Qin Feng finished speaking, he took the book and left, he still had a part-time job to do, which was an important source of income in his college life.
"Wait, hey, classmate! classmate, your ......"
The girl's voice did not reach the ears of Qin Feng, who was in a hurry to do a part-time job, they were two parallel lines that did not intersect with each other, he still had his things to do, there was no need to say anything.
But things in the world are always so wonderful!
In the second semester of his sophomore year, in a public elective class, Qin Feng, who was waiting for class, suddenly felt that someone was sitting down next to him, and a slightly familiar voice sounded in his ears.
"Hey, it's you!"
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Perhaps, as people often say, all encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence.
As is always the routine in the novel, they go from meeting, to acquaintance, and finally to acquaintance.
This process has nothing to do with anything else, some are just two souls touching each other.
Fairy tales have a good beginning, but the ending is cruel. She suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS.
Qin Feng, who had never bowed her head in the face of suffering, felt her powerlessness for the first time, that deep powerlessness, watching her life disappear day by day, until she left this world.
And he could do nothing but watch feebly, watching her lose weight day by day, until she left him and left this world.
Qin Feng, who has been strong for more than 40 years, felt for the first time that he couldn't hold on, she was gone, and his world collapsed.
Qin Feng, who was on the verge of madness, his past with her kept flashing in his mind, he thought of his encounter with her, thought of his grandfather, and a passage from his grandfather when he was a child suddenly appeared in his mind, lingering for a long time.
"Grandpa, what is Manju Sahua?"
"Xiao Feng, Manzhu Sahua is a flower that blooms on the other side of the Yellow Spring.
Legend has it that a long, long time ago, the edge of the heavenly realm was filled with large expanses of flowers called the other side, and its fragrance had a magical power that reminded people of their past lives.
Guarding the other side are two goblins, one is a flower demon named Manzhu, and the other is a leaf demon named Shahua.
They have been guarding the flowers of the other side for thousands of years, but they have never met, because when they bloom, there are no leaves, and when there are leaves, there are no flowers.
They miss each other frantically and are tormented by this pain. Finally, one day, they decided to meet secretly against the rules of the Dao Ancestor.
That year, the red and bright flowers on the other side were set off by the eye-catching green, and they bloomed particularly bewitchingly and beautifully.
Dao Ancestor blamed him, which was also expected.
Manju and Sahua were thrown into reincarnation and cursed to never be together, suffering in the human world for the rest of their lives.
Since then, Manju Sawa is also known as the Flower of the Side, which means the flower that blooms in the heavens, and its flower is shaped like a palm that is praying to heaven, but it has never appeared in the heavenly realm again.
This flower blooms on the Yellow Springs Road, and every time Manzhu and Sawa are reincarnated on the Yellow Springs Road, they can smell each other's scents and remember their previous lives, and then vow not to separate, and fall into the cursed cycle again in the next life.
Legend has it that after countless reincarnations of Manzhu Sawa Buddha, one day the Buddha came here, and saw a flower on the ground with extraordinary temperament, red like fire, and the Buddha came to it to look carefully, and saw the mystery just by looking at it.
The Buddha was neither sad nor angry, but he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed three times, and reached out to pull the flower out of the ground.
The Buddha put the flower in his hand and said with emotion: "In the previous life, you couldn't see each other, after countless reincarnations, you can't stay in love, the so-called division and union is just fate and fate, you have the curse of heaven, so that you are destined but not dispersed, and you are not divided, I can't help you unravel this vicious spell, so I will take you to the other side, let you bloom all over the wilderness."
On the way to the other side, the Buddha passed by the Lechuan River in the underworld, and accidentally got his clothes wet by the river, and the red flower that the Buddha was carrying was there.
When the Buddha came to the other side and untied the flowers wrapped in his clothes and looked at them again, he found that the fiery red flowers had become pure white, and the Buddha pondered for a moment and laughed loudly: Great joy is not as good as great sorrow, remembering is better than forgetting, right and wrong, how can you tell it, good flowers, good flowers.
The Buddha planted this flower on the other side and called it the mandala flower, and because it was on the other side, the world called it the flower on the other side.
But the Buddha didn't know that he was on the Lechuan River, and the river was so faded that all the red dripping was in the river, and he wailed all day long, which made people hear and mourn.
Jizo Bodhisattva is very supernatural, and when he learned that the mandala Hua had been born, he came to the river, took out a seed and threw it into the river, and after a while, a red and brighter flower grew out of the water, and Jizo took it in his hand and sighed: You have to get rid of it, you have to be at ease, why do you want to leave this boundless hatred in the boundless hell of the already bitter sea? I will let you be a guide messenger to guide them to samsara, just remember your color, there is already a mandala flower on the other side, so call you Manzhu Sahua.
Since then, there have been two completely different flowers in the world, one grows on the other side, and the other is born on the bank of the Lechuan River.
Because of the blessing of Jizo Bodhisattva, when Manju Sawa blooms, everyone who meets it will have a new start of fate. ”
In Qin Feng's impression, the book "Passing Yin and Yang" left by his grandfather's grandfather happened to record the way to find Manzhu Shahua.
It was this ethereal legend that became the last straw that Qin Feng clung to.
He hoped that his and her fate, the moment he found Manju Sahua, could start anew.